Some good valid points.Mass shootings is in part due to the availability of guns and being able to kill many people with relative ease. It's not that people are worse now than previously.
Is homelessness worse today than in the past? The rich poor divide is certainly less today compared to almost any time in history.
Nuclear weapons: they haven't been used since 1945.
Russia and the war in Ukraine: generally, war is on the decline.
China getting stroppy: is only potential for escalation into something bad. It doesn't count if it hasn't happened yet.
As a whole we're more evolved than a thousand years ago or than the 1960s/1970s. The awareness of the need to tackle climate change, LGBT rights, and the Internet. Not that it's a straight line, there are troughs. The 1960s and 1970s is a blip.
I thought this poster yesterday had an interesting perspective in this post...
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